![]() It depends on what type of maintenance you have in mind. To answer your question though, there is no single Mac utility that I would consider "best" any more than there is for Windows or Linux. What makes you dub Disk Warrior as mediocre? For what it does, I doubt you'll find a better alternative then Disk Warrior. But if you are not having problems, they are not really needed as part of a regular maintenance schedule. Now, if you're doing troubleshooting and not maintenance, then Diskwarrior, Tech Tool, AppleJack, Disk Utility (Repair Permissions), the latest OS X combo updater, and utilities that reset the caches can fix problems. The problem is long-time Mac users and Windows users are trained to believe that there must be more maintenance to be done, and in large part that isn't true as much as in the past.įor an audio/video studio, defragmenting the media drives could be a good idea since OS X only defragements files under 20MB, but I'm not in a position to recommend a defrag utility. ![]() It does what it does better than just about anything else out there. Most of everybody's favorite utilities out there are for troubleshooting, not maintenance.ĭiskWarrior isn't mediocre. The OS takes pretty good care of itself now. Through 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4, Apple has built more smarts into OS X so that less and less intentional maintenance is necessary.
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